Iris Antes

Prof. Iris Antes (1969–2021) was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), within the TUM School of Natural Sciences. Her research focused on interdisciplinary areas between Theoretical Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, emphasizing computational methods for understanding biomolecular structure-function relationships with applications in drug design and biotechnology. Her work also addressed medically relevant topics such as immunotherapy and viral resistance mechanisms in virology.

Education: Studied Chemistry at the Universities of Tübingen and Marburg. Earned her PhD in Theoretical Chemistry in Zurich. Conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, where she habilitated in Bioinformatics (affiliated with the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics).

Research Interests: Development of computational tools for drug design, enzymatic catalysis modeling, and medically oriented studies in immunology and virology. Her group specialized in applying bioinformatics and theoretical methods to solve complex biological problems.

Scientific Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided text.

Advising & Grants: No specific advisees or grants mentioned in the text. Her research group (Arbeitsgruppe) contributed to interdisciplinary projects at the interface of chemistry and computational sciences.

Labs/Teams: Active in TUM's Department of Chemistry, collaborating across disciplines to advance computational methods in biochemistry and medicine.